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Skills-Based Intervention Did Not Cut Systolic BP After Stroke, TIA

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

FRIDAY, Oct. 12, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- A culturally tailored, skills-based educational intervention did not reduce systolic blood pressure at one year after stroke/transient ischemic attack, according to a study published online Oct. 8 in JAMA Neurology.

Bernadette Boden-Albala, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., from New York University in New York City, and colleagues performed a randomized clinical trial to examine the efficacy of a culturally tailored skills-based educational intervention with telephone follow-up versus standard discharge care for a multiethnic cohort of 552 patients with mild/moderate stroke/transient ischemic attack.

"Culturally tailored, skills-based strategies may be an important alternative to knowledge-focused approaches in achieving sustained vascular risk reduction and addressing racial/ethnic stroke disparities; however, these findings should be tested in future studies," the authors write.